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Acclaimed political journalist and author Ian Dunt has been appointed as the Chair of the newly established Editorial Board for New Humanist magazine, following its merger with Humanists UK earlier this year. New Humanist, now in its 140th year of publication, became part of Humanists UK on 1 January this year in a merger that… Read more »
On Wednesday, a man is to stand trial after burning a Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in London reportedly in protest of the President of Turkey. Humanists UK has warned that if the prosecution is successful, and if the case is reported, it will effectively re-establish the crime of blasphemy in England and Wales, 17… Read more »
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The defence secretary has repeated his insistence that British troops will not pull out of Iraq ‘until the job is done’, after two more soldiers were killed at the weekend. The pair, who are from the Queen’s Dragoon Guards, were killed by a roadside bomb in the southern city of Basra on Sunday morning. Their… Read more »
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced a new crack down on sexual harassment after research today revealed the problem was widespread in all the armed forces. A survey of 9,384 servicewomen reveals that 99 per cent had witnessed sexual jokes, explicit material or unwanted touching in the past 12 months. And although there was… Read more »
